JEAN STAFFORD

From time to time, I need a rest from the exercitation of my intellect.

A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall.

He does what I have always needed to have done to me, and that is that he dominates me.

You say that you hope I will be recognized as the best novelist of my generation. I want you to know now and know completely that that would mean to me absolutely nothing.

Irony, I feel, is a very high form of morality.

For all practical purposes I left home when I was 7.

For me, there is nothing worse than the knowledge that my life holds nothing for me but being a writer.

I am growing meaner by the hour.

You say that you hope I will be recognized as the best novelist of my generation. I want you to know now and know completely that that would mean to me absolutely nothing.

For me, there is nothing worse than the knowledge that my life holds nothing for me but being a writer.

From time to time, I need a rest from the exercitation of my intellect.

He does what I have always needed to have done to me, and that is that he dominates me.

I am growing meaner by the hour.

A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall.

For all practical purposes I left home when I was 7.

Irony, I feel, is a very high form of morality.